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oh its a vivek wadhwa piece...if vivek says the sun rises from the east, i'm much more likely to believe it must be the west. vivek periodically writes these half baked partisan anecdote-ridden pieces & calls it "research"....as a former immigrant and a recipient of the so-called "genius visa" (EB1), i'm very sympathetic to the cause. yes, immigration to the USA is very hassly and the laws must be vastly simplified etc... but this won't do. this sort of article is akin to a startup job post on HN. "Immigration. Its broken! We must fix it. We are a group of yc founders who will build immigration from scratch in Ruby on Rails. For the harder parts we will ofcourse use PHP. You must be a rockstar immigrant with 100 years of immigration behind you. For bonus points, show me your immigration in github. Solve this immigration puzzle on our website using only backbone.js and coffeescript, and you can score an exclusive lunch with us, cooked by immigrants, catered by immigrants, exclusively for you, the immigrant. Don't forget to carry your H1B visas on your person, you never know when you might be deported! Apply already, but only after you decode our bcrypt secured ROT13 encrypted immigration email and pay processing fees of 13 dollars 26 cents exclusively in bitcoins".

founding companies is not simply a matter of talent and risk-appetite, which, arguably, the STEM immigrant has more of. its also a matter of feeling secure with your finances, having a house in a good school district, having a CD or two for the rainy day, having some connections to the VC community, having the time & desire to hack up a prototype & blog about it & build a community & attract enough interest...all of which immigrants are less likely to do, given that we are already preoccupied with keeping a job, keeping our immigration papers in order, gradually building up savings, digging ourselves out of the negative equity hole that most of us are in because we borrowed money to get here in the first place...i could go on and on, but i won't. suffice it to say, the sun definitely rises in the west, because vivek has said its the east.
Him and Andrew Basiago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwE8m50sbWk&playnext=1&#...
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"Every area of the screen is reachable, after all (unlike many Android phones with 4-inch+ screens)"

Because 4-inch is the upper limit and Apple got it right again.
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IANAL, but it's hard to sign away your right to tortious remedy like this (in most cases). At least in the way we think of it.

Even if you could sign away your right to sue, these are contracts, so things aren't so black and white. We're talking civil law here, which means even if you did sign away your right to sue, you could sue anyway. You'd break the contract, which would open you to counter-suit, but hey, we're all lobbing grenades at that point, so why the hell not, right?

For context, I'm currently being sued for something that every attorney I talk to says is a "total bullshit suit", yet it's been going on for two (almost three) years now.
Yeah. Sharp knees. Would not hit.[1]

[1] http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/210-would-not-bang
Did you read the article? That's kind of the point he's making, that they're the start.
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"Software does have those."

Could you tell me which part of the software industry currently has a majority of women? (We agree that "does" is present tense, right?) I seem to be missing it.

"Computer programmers used to be almost exclusively women."

True. But that was before I was born. And I'm 45.[1]

[1] http://gender.stanford.edu/news/2011/researcher-reveals-how-...
So what happens to the rest of the PhD students? Or are there just not many students who go on to get PhDs?
> iOS’s tab bars are anchored to the bottom of the screen, where your thumb more naturally rests, so it remains easy to change app sections (contrast this with Android’s tab bars, which are usually located at the top of the screen, and sometimes out of reach).

I disagree with this, I think navigation should be at the top because you use them infrequently. What you do do frequently is scroll, and navigation being on the bottom gets in the way of trying to scroll.

However, this is just my own personal observation. I'm not going to write a blog post on how it is a scientific fact that navigation is better when on the top.
Your initial takeaway might simply be "wow, a lot less people user Twitter than Facebook." However, I remember seeing stats a year or two ago suggesting that 50% of US users had Facebook and less than 10% had Twitter. If both sets of numbers are accurately comparable (and they may not be), that would suggest that Facebook may be on a slow decline while Twitter is still growing.
Well, class action suits itself are not free of problems.
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Have you ever heard the phrase 'optimise for the common case'?
how do you avoid licensing all the content you're making available for annotation? If you're going to annotate literature that's under copyright (for example) won't you pretty much have to provide the base work to anyone looking for annotations?

Or is the idea to build up content until you get slapped and then license it back to existing licensees like amazon or rhapsody?

Looks a bit like the latter given the pretty broad sublicensing in the TOU, "Hip Hop Wikipedia" except, you know, for the part where everyone can use the information.
At the moment, we are accepting U.S. based developers only. We hope to change that down the road. I know that's a shitty answer, but due to our payments provider, and the fact that we don't want to jump in the deep end right away, that's how we're rolling for now.
Is it me, or are people just dancing to Apple's fiddle? I've seen this same type of post several times, but it doesn't apply to me...or most people I know most likely.

I hold a phone across my fingers, tucked nicely under the top of my palm. I can reach across a 4" screen without a problem.

Also, when I'm holding a phone vertically, I don't typically only use my thumb - I use my other, more dexterous, and more "free", hand.

Wait...maybe the people this applies to are busy with their other hand?
equipped with a spade, I suppose?
Startups start dying due to a lack of customers. Now, they actually die when you gave up. Duh...
It depends on a few things...

-As mentioned earlier, how the mp3 was prepared, whether split or joint stereo encoding.

-The source of the instrumental version. If the source is vinyl, all bets are off. If the source is a proper "Instrumental Version", it would have been mastered from an identical mix but without vocals and vocal effects (ex. reverb), and with the exact same settings as the original master. That is how major labels typically do it --- if it's apparent that the album will be popular, they'll usually have an instrumental mix (and master) created at the same time. This is done because the label wants to have instrumental versions for later potential use in films, TV shows, award ceremonies, commercials, etc. It's much more expensive to go back and "recall" settings in order to "mix-down" instrumental versions. This usually requires hiring the original mix engineer or one of their assistants and renting the studio at which it was mixed. Many pieces of "analog" mixing gear are not "stepped" with repeatable settings. Analog gear also has differences between individual pieces of equipment, even if the same model. Equipment breaks, is sold or removed, and this makes the task of a recall that much more difficult. Recalling mastering settings isn't nearly as daunting, as mastering studios typically retain all of their equipment and keep it in working order. This means that good documentation is required, similar to the software development process. For many of your all-tim favorite albums, there exists binders full of charts, diagrams, and notes detailing microphone types and positioning in the room and relative to the instrument/speaker, channel assignments, mixing equipment settings, the type/speed/bias/etc. of tape, lyrics and notation, even the types and tuning of instruments. It's a very complex process to document and recreate.
I almost never use my 4-inch phone with single hand, except when I am texting while driving, which I shouldn't be doing anyway.

In fact, larger phones make it much more difficult to text while driving and that might be a good thing.
What does "Have a Facebook Account" mean in terms of activity? Maybe the question should also have asked about usage ...
This is awesome. I remember when the name of rapgenius was decided on the two plus two forums between rapopedia, rapexegesis and rapgenius.

The initial traction really came from the high stakes online poker player community and two plus two generally. I wonder why one of the first guys to be involved, Ariel Schneller (Foxwoodsfiend/Daevils/MikeVickisGod on poker sites) dropped out of the adventure.

This is him commenting on the funding on 2p2: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showpost.php?p=35110971...
Bought one as soon as it was available. My major problem with it is the same problem I have had with my Android smart phones: Lack of apps.

Almost all new Y Combinator startups choose iOS first.
When Google has their $0.25 app sale, I had already purchased 95% of the apps they showed off.
He says:

"Every area of the screen is reachable, after all (unlike many Android phones with 4-inch+ screens)"
I think it's pretty clear that the iPhone screen was increased in size to help them compete against Android for "feature shoppers" (people who just look at numerical stats of phones, rather than try them and judge which they like better). This is probably the majority of smartphone shoppers, although Apple has traditionally primarily targeted the "experience shoppers" (people who actually know that they prefer Apple products rather than just chasing the newest/lightest/fastest/thinnest phone).
Nice, well written article but... how about just lowering the damned prices on Mp3s before giving up on selling music? Like to $0.10 a song.
Unless I am mistaken, the laws that make jury nullification possible are something that really only works one way. A jury can refuse to find someone guilty, despite all evidence for whatever reason they wish, but I don't think the opposite is true. An inbalance between 'guilty' and 'innocent' is built into the system, for example you can appeal a guilty verdict, but cannot appeal an innocent verdict.

At least I hope my understanding is correct...
Yeah I, would agree they're modern versions of crowd patronage. I do think though that in the future, musicians will have a more fleshed out platform catered to their needs. With their music, community, CRM admin, etc.
I could immediately tell from the copy that English isn't your first language. It wasn't wrong, but it didn't read like anything a good writer whose first language is English would write.

That's not a criticism of you. I don't speak Polish. But if you want to minimise the risk of people making snap judgements because of it, you could pay someone to rewrite your copy.
Long-time top submitter here (still top 4, although I think I stopped in 2005 http://slashdot.org/hof.shtml), many good memories, the sense of community helped shape my interests in many ways, influencing my career, so just want to thank for your great work.
Gotcha, I did misread.
They evolved.

For plants to be on Mars, either A) the immeasurably chaotic process of evolution yielded carbon-based, cellular, stationary, metabolizing, photosynthetic, reproductive things on two planets with vastly different geological and climatic histories, or B) Earth-borne plant material, which has evolved to the point that it can only produce a viable organism in certain rather specific environmental niches on its home planet, has somehow reached a foreign planet and developed into a more-or-less thriving colony of vegetation upon it.

Neither of those seems terribly likely.
Is there a master list of iOS6 changes to browser behavior? It kills me that stuff like this is still trickling out.
I have normal man sized hands and I can't reach the corner of a 3.5 inch phone without straining my thumb a little.
The point is, you almost never have to reach the top left on Android, but you often do on iOS.
> The US isn't the only place to start something, try Berlin and say goodbye to any visa problems.

Really? AFAIK anyone who's not an EU citizen still needs to get a visa before moving there. And most companies won't hire someone who doesn't live there.
Lately I've seen a couple people refer to Backbone as "heavy," which I just don't understand, as it seems about as lightweight as possible for the functionality it provides. Could you explain what you mean?
And?

He said "many", not "all", and "4-inch+", not "4-inch".

Most of the high-end Android phones on the market are larger than 4 inches (in many cases, significantly so), and he says the iPhone 5 - at 4.0 - is barely acceptable.
I believe you're lost. This is HN, not ThinkProgress.
Yeah, there should be scrubbing controls. I don't mind watching the entire video but I'd like to know how long the video is so I can decide to watch it now (if it's 45 seconds) or later when I have free time (if it's 10 minutes long).
I was wondering the same thing about Twitter.

About half the people I know have Twitter accounts. Of them, only a handful have ever tweeted anything.
My post had nothing to do with Android. I personally like iOS and am sad that I won't be buying iPhone 5. My point was just that iOS's back button convention is completely at odds with the new screen size.
One-handed use is important for circumstances where you are carrying a bag with the other hand (like when you have to deal with luggage at the airport).

After seeing some of my friends struggle with the 5, I'm not going to upgrade (my 4S works just fine :)
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I think it depends on what stage you are with the company and who you're dealing with. If its just 2-3 friends/partner and theres a good amount of trust...I think you can swing it with a spreadsheet for a while. You'll need to switch over as soon as it starts getting complicated though.
Did you? He also said "the software benefits that come from that extra half an inch hugely improve the experience of using the phone." That's certainly praise, possibly even glowing.

The criticism here seems reasonable. He went from discussing a "huge downside of larger screens" to saying that a bigger screen "hugely" improves the experience. Oh, and previously the smaller screen was "one of the things that makes Apple products Apple products." Manufacturers with larger screens were "doing it wrong."

The entire post is just Dustin Curtis trying to rationalize his jump from claiming that bigger screens are too big to claiming that they are a huge improvement (now that Apple does them).
On my Galaxy Nexus the back button is always in the exact same physical position, which is nice because you can reflexively hit it like a hard button and you won't get caught out in cases where it's transitioning from portrait to landscape or vice versa.

Also, since Jelly Bean I can't say I've ever had an unexpected result by pressing the back button. As far as I can tell it always does The Right Thing since they got their guidelines formalized, at least with the couple dozen apps I regularly use. I have to say on balance I've been more annoyed with iPhone apps lacking necessary navigation buttons on some screens more than Android back button inconsistency.
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I think labels adding value as curators is an outdated argument.

Music aggregators are everywhere now. HypeMachine, SoundCloud, even iTunes and Youtube all help me find great music. Even Reddit itself has subreddits that aggregate great music. Sometimes that music is curated by a label, oftentimes not.
Define 'evil', and then define 'easier'.
A non-citizen of the US can register a company in certain states (Delaware is the most common one). I'm an Indian Citizen and our company is a C-Corp there. I go back and forth on a Business Visa.
You're taking what I said out of context. I said:

The basic principle here is, do not talk to "progressive" black people, because you are likely to say something innocuous that they interpret as highly offensive. That is the message being sent here.

As I clarified in my last post, my point was that it is regrettable that the blogger "sent the message" he did.

By the way, when you talk about me forgiving _pius, you are obfuscating who is blaming who. I am on the receiving end of blame, not the giving end.
Besides, on most apps, you change tabs by swiping left and right.
The problem people had with the original article was the smugness with which he made the argument. Here's the worst part (from the 3.5 article):

> This is an example of one of those design decisions that you don't usually notice until you see someone doing it wrong. It's one of the things that makes Apple products Apple products.

It's one thing to lay out an argument for a design, it's another to claim that anyone arriving at another conclusion (as Apple eventually did), is "doing it wrong".
My post was entirely about placement and now the new iPhone's screen size goes against the convention of top left for back button on iOS. The fact that so many people are reading deeply into my mention of Android and jumping in to talk about hardware back buttons and/or defend Android is bizarre to me.
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I wouldn't have received significant numbers about usage. In surveys you don't want to conflate questions, and these questions are asked independently to different people. It's hard to formulate a question about usage of Facebook for the general internet population and get a significant number of useful responses.

Edit: I learned that the tool lets you ask Screener questions that qualify people to answer subsequent questions. I'll try this with a future survey.
Think about what it could be, rather than what you fear it might turn into.
TL;DR Artists can use the Kickstarter model to collect from their most ardent fans instead of trying to sell units to everyone.

I think this makes a lot of sense and can work in some cases, but it remains to be seen what happens when the market is saturated with artists looking to collect voluntarily from their fan base. I suspect people will fatigue from the euphoria of being generous and the model will fade, but I hope I'm wrong.
It feels weird to realize that according to Mars, we're the aliens invading the planet. Makes me wonder about all the extraterrestrial "rovers" on our planet.
http://hothardware.com/News/Appeals-Court-Reverses-Decision-...

tl;dr

The issue in question was whether or not Dell's Terms and Conditions of Sale could legally force the company's customers to settle disputes through arbitration rather than in a court of law. This is the second time in recent history that the ninth circuit has found such arbitration clauses unenforceable due to the unconscionable burden they place upon the purchaser.

...

The court based its ruling in Omstead v. Dell directly upon an earlier case, Oestreicher v. Alienware, in which Alienware (a Dell subsidiary) attempted to force Mr. Oestreicher into arbitration. In that decision, the court wrote that the Alienware contract was unconscionable because it was a "contract of adhesion." A contract of adhesion is a standardized contract, which, imposed and drafted by the party of superior bargaining strength, relegates to the subscribing party [the customer] only the opportunity to adhere to the contract or reject it.
Yeah, I saw a wide variety of unit effort put into things like that. At one level, standardization is good, but at another level, treating a 6'7 300# Samoan guy the same as a 5'3" female might not make sense for layout of equipment...

The ultra-badass thing to do was to pre-apply CAT tourniquets (loose) to all 4 limbs, so the operator could then tighten them when hit and continue in the fight. An 18D would then periodically loosen them, keeping the limb from being lost, and monitoring/timing for sepsis (which is the risk of leaving a tourniquet tight, letting tissue die, and then loosening outside of a hospital setting -- I think it's hyperkalemia and some other stuff too. I think the rule is 30 minutes of blood flow per 2 hours for up to 24h, but this was evolving at the time. It worked better for immediate response than relying just on direct pressure (israeli bandage, etc.), since it could be accomplished in 5 seconds directly by the operator (it's hard to even FIND where entrance and exit wounds are under a uniform, and sometimes there are multiple per patient per incident, although usually on the same limb).

It was fine when OCF-I, etc. people did it, but then utterly hilarious when random people copied them without understanding (not even infantry, but supply guys going on outside the wire road trips between bases returning from R&R...).

It was a lot like startups -- people learning as they went, in a rapidly evolving environment. The big fail, IMO, was rotating whole units out ever 4, 7, 12, or 15 months to have to re-learn everything again, and then sending them to an entirely different place when they returned. The British Empire system of rotating individual battalions or brigades through a unit which was permanently stationed in the occupied territory made a lot more sense I think.
Before outsourcing and offshoring everyone was afraid robots would take their jobs (they did). Personally, I care about a Chinese or Indian family's quality of life equally as much as I care about a local family. Manufacturing jobs allow them to rise above subsistence farming. I'd rather make it so they can skip the whole ugliness the western world went through during its industrialization, but that seems unlikely.

Since there are safety nets in most first world countries, I'll take globalization over unionization as the best way to improve global standards of living over time.
I don't think old stats from other sources are comparable. In order to evaluate changes I would only compare my results against the exact same question asked with the same tool at a different point in time.
It really does. However, one should keep in mind that humans have overzealous pattern-matching engines. We are really good at erroneously seeing things that we recognize.
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It seems like we'd be able to tell if they are geysers or something else by having a few frames of photos? A geyser would be moving in some way you'd think?
I can't see any point in this where Amazon didn't take the right steps.

Your readers are not eagerly awaiting the advertisement for your new book that you want to send to them.
The parts used to build this total $330 vs. the $70 for the LEAP and it seems that this is less accurate and responsive. I'd get behind this if it was purely an open source effort to bring this to people who can't get their hands on a LEAP. It's just so much more expensive, it's only free to use during the "public beta" period.

I'm honestly a bit confused at how they expect to compete with the LEAP. I can't see anything they bring to the table that the LEAP doesn't already do better.

http://goo.gl/fYc1P <-- Directions from the LEAP offices to the 3GearSystems offices. Just for fun.
I was going to ask the same question (even though I won't have visa problem because I am married to a Japanese). Also, is it necessary to speak Japanese to work in a start-up owned by foreigners? And how about the paperwork to create a company there?
You guys and Dr Chrono are doing some great work; keep it up!
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